Quotes of Usefulness - somelinesforyou

“ Flowers… are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user. ”

- Theodore Roosevelt

“ Take your victories, whatever they may be, cherish them, use them, but don't settle for them. ”

- Mia Hamm

“ I try to use my music to move these people to act. ”

- Jimi Hendrix

“ I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened. ”

- Fidel Castro

“ It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong. ”

- Richard Feynman

“ If my life is of no value to my friends it is of none to myself. ”

- Joseph Smith Jr.

“ Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three - and paradise is when you have none. ”

- Doug Larson

“ The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web. ”

- Edwin Way Teale

“ Every innovation occasions more harm and and derangement of order by its novelty, than benefit by its abstract utility. ”

- Legal Maxim

“ The empirical usability of the sacred ceremonial words makes both the speaker and listener believe in their corporeal presence. ”

- Theodor W. Adorno

“ Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs. ”

- Karl Marx

“ Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person. ”

- Chanakya

“ Ability is of little account without opportunity ”

- Lucille Ball

“ All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer. ”

- Robert Louis Stevenson

“ Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow. ”

- William Blake

“ Nothing can have value without being an object of utility. ”

- Karl Marx

“ My son, observe the postage stamp! Its usefulness depends upon its ability to stick to one thing until it gets there. ”

- Josh Billings

“ Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there. ”

- Josh Billings

“ Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend. ”

- Walter Savage Landor

“ A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user. ”

- Theodore Roosevelt

“ Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there. ”

- Josh Billings

“ A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue. ”

- Richard M. Nixon

“ Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions. ”

- Peace Pilgrim

“ Contentment, and indeed usefulness, comes as the infallible result of great acceptances, great humilities — of not trying to conform to some dramatized version of ourselves. ”

- David Grayson

“ Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed. ”

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

“ One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world. ”

- Ann Radcliffe

“ Security can only be achieved through constant change, through discarding old ideas that have out-lived their usefulness and adapting others to current facts. ”

- William Orville Douglas

“ The sweetness of life lies in usefulness, like honey deep in the heart of a clover bloom. ”

- Laura Ingalls Wilder

“ The usefulness of madmen is famous: they demonstrate society's logic flagrantly carried out down to its last scrimshaw scrap. ”

- Cynthia Ozick
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